git push heroku master permission denied

Question

I am following the ruby.railstutorial. I run the command \"git push heroku master\" and it spits out this error.

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not          


        

Answer 1

If you are working on Windows, be sure to use git-bash instead of Powershell/Command Prompt.

If you just want to reset your ssh keys:

1. delete your user's .ssh dir
2. open git-bash
3. ssh-keygen -t rsa
4. heroku keys:add

and then you will be able to git push.